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KCPro  
#1 Posted : Wednesday, December 30, 2015 9:10:51 PM(UTC)
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I currently have a 500GB SSD for my operating system and vMix, I need more space to record ISO.
Can I add another SSD and make that the one that the recordings go to?
If I do it that way, so I lose any speed?
Any downside to doing it that way?
Or should I just start from scratch and get a 1TB SSD?

Thank you for any help.
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#2 Posted : Wednesday, December 30, 2015 9:59:27 PM(UTC)
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Other than the cost of buying it, I can't think of a downside to adding another SSD to your system. Unless your system has an under-powered power supply, there shouldn't be any negative issues. If you have vMix Pro or 4X and are going to use Instant Replay you should have another drive. I have one desktop system (vMix & Wirecast) running 3 drives, a RAID SSD pair for the OS and a hard drive dedicated to storage.
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#3 Posted : Wednesday, December 30, 2015 10:23:38 PM(UTC)
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I agree with SportsNetUSA.net. There should be no issue with running multiple drives on a desktop computer provided it has the capacity, in fact, I would highly recommend it. Even an appropriately connected external drive on a laptop can be beneficial.


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#4 Posted : Thursday, December 31, 2015 12:07:43 AM(UTC)
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The recommendations you will find on this forum is to run seperate SSD's per ISO. It is possible to record them with less however. The vMix Go is spec'd with 4 hotswap SSD bays, and Martin has suggested that he recommends Crucial Drives. I have been using multiple SSD's (Sandisk and Samsung) without issue for the last three years.
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#5 Posted : Thursday, December 31, 2015 11:29:29 AM(UTC)
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SportsNetUSA.net wrote:
Other than the cost of buying it, I can't think of a downside to adding another SSD to your system. Unless your system has an under-powered power supply, there shouldn't be any negative issues. If you have vMix Pro or 4X and are going to use Instant Replay you should have another drive. I have one desktop system (vMix & Wirecast) running 3 drives, a RAID SSD pair for the OS and a hard drive dedicated to storage.


SSDs use so little power that the power supply should never be a factor. If adding an SSD pushes it over the edge then your system would likely have been unstable already.
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